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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith
London.
22 Oct [1936]
C∴F∴
93
Didn't misjudge. Didn't judge at all. Waited to get some sense out of you. You ignored me completely. You made things worse by the long, partly unintelligible [?]. "Deny charges Writing" would have been ample. If you waste 5 dollars or so like that, no wonder things go ill.
Yours of Oct 4 with 516's [Jane Wolfe] of Oct 3 don't clear up the matter at all. They merely vindicate you. They don't explain in the least why Jacobi [Oliver Jacobi] withdrew threatening suicide etc.
The real trouble is, it seems to me, that you simply have not the gift of leading people harmoniously (I lack it myself, but I think from other causes). You don't seem able to set them to work.
And it's all such a muddle. It's absurd that with the rituals as they are, you should have failed to attract a single man or woman of position in all this time. One clue is that Jane proposes to put on "The Ship": at least a 50,000 dollar production. None of you seem to have any sense of social or artistic values: you run the Order like a tin Tabernacle. Well, as neither you nor 687 [Max Schneider] can show me any cause of quarrel, why not forget the whole nonsense?
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